Roche's Tamiflu - Is It Or Isn't It Effective?

Come winter and there is a surge of flu cases. Influenza, commonly referred to as flu, is an acute and contagious viral infection of the respiratory tract. Nearly 3 million to 5 million cases of seasonal influenza occur every year, and around 250,000 to 500,000 people are dying from this disease, according to the World Health Organization, or WHO.

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The Center for Disease Control recently announced that it is expecting more than 160 million cases of the flu over the 2012 flu season. In an average year, complications related to the flu lead to over 200,000 hospitalizations, many of which are non-emergent and contribute to an overcrowded, wasteful healthcare system.